Best Overmatched Poems
No Man Stands Alone - the Ballad of Barney Ross...CHORUS
No man stands alone
in the street, the ring or the combat zone
some lay in the gutter
some sit on a throne
but no man stands alone
At the age of fourteen
he had a dream
to become a ......
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Categories:
overmatched, courage, history, song-urban, war,
Form:
Ballad
I'M a Handful...''I'M A HANDFUL''
"OH MY GOD!", I WOKE UP SCREAMING
MY BODY SOAKED IN SWEAT
BOTH HANDS SHAKING...POUNDING, IN MY CHEST
IN MY NIGHTMARE, THERE SHE WAS, SHOUTING OUT
"I'M A HANDFUL"
AS S......
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Categories:
overmatched, faith, me, dark, dark,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Taming the Beast...I stared the beast straight in the eyes,
Determined to change his wildish ways,
But he stared right back with viciousness;
Eyes unveiling a mind that’s wild and crazed.
As to our physical natur......
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Categories:
overmatched, life
Form:
Rhyme
Her Tin Crown...Smile gone, the yellow orb wrapped in haze
leaves sidewalks and lawns lonelier
Darkness o'erspreads afternoon's tin crown
Her realm overmatched
she collapses into
the grim face of nigh......
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Categories:
overmatched, autumn, dark, night,
Form:
Free verse